In this episode, we keep going in the Gospel of Matthew, specifically The Sermon on the Mount.
Today we explore the meaning and significance of Jesus’s command “Love your neighbor”, which even includes the people who hate you (or your enemies). We’re going to look into why this is such a shocking and controversial teaching, especially in Jesus’s day and age. It can sometimes feel very counter-intuitive.
This is a difficult teaching to hear and process and think of what it means, but let’s go into this with open minds.